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1. Introduction
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This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) explains how Aon (the “Company”) makes use of the personal
information collected about you in connection with your application for employment.
Throughout this Notice, the Company may be referred to as “the Company”, "we", "us", or
"our".
2.2 You are required to provide any personal information that we reasonably require to assess your
application for employment and meet our legal and regulatory obligations. Where you refuse to
provide information that we reasonably require to fulfil these obligations we may be unable to
consider your application.
2.3 Where you provide personal information to the Company about third party individuals (e.g.
information about your referees), where appropriate, you should provide these individuals with a
copy of this Notice beforehand or ensure they are otherwise made aware of how their information
will be used by the Company.
2.4 In addition to sourcing personal information from you directly, we may also collect personal
information about you from other third parties, such as your nominated referees, previous
employers, educational and professional establishments, credit reference agencies, vetting
agencies, criminal record agencies, medical professionals and other professional advisory service
providers.
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This means the Aon legal entity that has advertised the job role and any other Aon affiliates or subsidiary companies.
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The descriptions of the information comprised in each category are examples and are not exhaustive.
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3. Processing Your Information
We will use the information we collect about you in your application to:
a. process applications for employment and inform recruitment decisions taken
about appointments and new hires;
b. monitor racial or ethnic origin, gender diversity and physical or mental
incapacity;
c. fulfil our legal and regulatory obligations;
d. monitor compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations and internal
policies, standards, and procedures;
e. manage the physical and logical security of our office premises, IT systems,
confidential information and intellectual property;
f. facilitate the prevention, detection and investigation of crime and the
apprehension or prosecution of offenders;
g. investigate, exercise or defend legal claims or other claims of a similar nature;
and
h. exercise or enforce our rights.
b. Discharging legal and : The collection and use of some aspects of your personal
regulatory obligations information is necessary to enable us to meet our legal
and regulatory obligations in connection with your
prospective employment. For example, this may include
obligations concerning equality and diversity monitoring,
social security and tax remittance, health and safety and
immigration and work permit checks.
c. Processing for : The collection and use of some of your sensitive personal
occupational health information, such as information about your physical and
purposes. mental health is necessary for occupational health
purposes. For example, this may include medical
assessments and diagnosis to evaluate your potential
work capacity and the provision of health or social care
treatment.
e. Pursuing legitimate : The collection and use of some aspects of your personal
interests information is necessary to enable us to pursue our
legitimate commercial interests, e.g. to operate our
business, particularly the processing activities set out in
sections 3(a), 3(d), 3(f), 3(g), 3(h) of this Notice. Where
we rely on this legal basis to collect and use your
personal information we shall take appropriate steps to
ensure the processing does not infringe the rights and
freedoms conferred to you under applicable data privacy
law.
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5. Recipients of Your Information
We generally share personal information about our prospective employees with the following
recipients:
a. recruitment agencies, where necessary to administer and manage the recruitment
process;
b. employees, where necessary to operate our business;
c. third party suppliers, where we outsource our processing operations to suppliers that
process personal information on our behalf. These processing operations shall
remain under our control and will be carried out in accordance with our security
standards and strict instructions;
d. successors of the business, where the Company is sold to, acquired by or merged
with another organisation, in whole or in part. Where personal information is shared
in these circumstances it will continue to be used in accordance with this Notice;
e. medical professionals and occupational health advisers, where we require you to
undergo a medical assessment or require professional advice about your physical or
mental health. These advisers may in turn also share personal information with us
about medical assessment outcomes and your health status;
6.2 Where we collect personal information about you in the United Kingdom (the “UK”) or the
European Economic Area (the “EEA”) we may transfer the information to countries outside the
UK or EEA for the processing purposes outlined in this Notice. This may include transfers to
countries that the European Commission (the “EC”) and UK data protection regulator consider to
provide adequate data privacy safeguards and to some countries that are not subject to an
adequacy decision. Where we transfer personal information to countries that are not subject to an
adequacy decision we shall put in place appropriate safeguards, such as data transfer
agreements approved by the EC or UK data protection regulator, as appropriate. Where required,
further information concerning these safeguards can be obtained from Human Resources.
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7.2 In addition to the general retention period set out above in section 7.1, we may also retain your
personal information for a reasonable period to enable us to match your details with other suitable
job opportunities that may arise within Aon from time to time. If you do not wish your information
to be retained for this purpose you should inform Human Resources.
9. Information Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and
availability of the personal information we collect about you and ensure that such information is
processed in accordance with applicable data privacy law.
10.2 It is important to note, however, that some of the rights described above in section 10.1 can only
be exercised in certain circumstances. If we are unable to fulfil a request from you to exercise one
of your rights under applicable data privacy law we will write to you to explain the reason for
refusal. Where required, further information concerning these rights and their application can be
obtained from the Global Data Privacy Office.
11. Complaints
If you wish to make a complaint about the way we use your personal information you should raise
this with us by contacting Human Resources in the first instance. However, if you are not satisfied
with the way we have handled your complaint you have the right to raise the matter with the
relevant data protection regulator.
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12. Changes to this Notice
This Notice is not contractual and we reserve the right to reasonably amend it from time to time to
ensure it continues to accurately reflect the way that we collect and use your personal information.
Any updates or changes to this Notice will be published on this recruitment portal here. You
should periodically review this Notice to ensure you understand how we collect and use your
personal information.
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